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Book Review: Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness, Laura Kelly
THE QUOTES chosen to adorn the back cover of Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness, Laura Kelly’s collection of vignettes chronicling her experiences teaching journalism in post-communist countries, are immediately off-putting. “Excuse me please, but you are adventure,” says Tirana resident Bashkim Gjergji. “The generous and the bold have the best lives,” proclaims a Norwegian proverb. Travel writing always risks slipping into self-indulgence, and the prospect of following this “part-time bon vivant” from Miami on her self-congratulatory adventures isn’t too enticing. Fortunately, it quickly becomes clear that the trumpet-blows of the blurb are misrepresentative.
Birdwatching Slovak style
BEARS, wolves, lynx, and boar: wildlife in Slovakia is usually associated with sharp-toothed quadrupeds such as these, the kind that populate fairy tales and folklore as well as the country’s eastern forests. But Slovakia’s terrain also hosts a fascinating variety of birdlife in a diverse range of habitats, and there is a growing interest in birdwatching as an alternative form of engagement with the country’s natural world. In Bratislava, two young ornithologists recently established the first travel agency in Slovakia to focus on birdwatching.
Slovak experience guides Bosnians
EVERY November Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrates the anniversary of the Dayton Accords, the peace agreement which brought to an end the devastating war that from 1992 to 1995 claimed 100,000 lives and dispersed a million people. However, the two primary political objectives agreed upon by the country’s government following the establishment of peace remain distant, made inaccessible by a number of entrenched obstacles. Over the past year, a Slovak NGO has been working with Bosnian officials to help the country to finally overcome these difficulties.
Creating jobs while cutting carbon emissions
IN THE floodplain forests of the Danube River, a short distance from the Slovak-Hungarian border town of Komárno, a small NGO is attempting to harness traditional methods of working with nature to stabilise a disrupted ecosystem and combat climate change. BROZ, the Bratislava-based NGO behind the project, aims to restore animal grazing to the area and regenerate its indigenous population of willow trees. The NGO also hopes to bring employment, skills, and education to people in this deprived region, where unemployment reaches 16 percent.
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